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Blu Dot’s Real Good Chair Experiment

What would happen, Blu Dot asks, when free-to-take chairs are left all over NYC?

When Blu Dot opened their SoHo store in 2008, they became surrounded by the resourceful culture of “curb-mining”: the act of finding furniture and art on the street. Now that a year has passed, they collaborated with their friends at mono (www.mono-1.com) to conduct a curb-mining experiment of their own: What would happen if they left a bunch of Real Good Chairs all over New York, free for the take? Who will grab them? Where will they go? How will they get there? What will their new homes look like? Thus, the Real Good Experiment was born.

On November 4-5, twenty-five Real Good Chairs were dropped around NYC. Many chairs are GPS-enabled. You can follow their journeys in real-time at www.bludot.com/real-good-experiment. And for updates from the field, follow the chair Twitter, www.twitter.com/realgoodchair

And once the chairs have reached their destinations, Blu Dot will follow up with the new owners as part of a documentary that will be released in December to celebrate the first anniversary of their SoHo showroom. Stay tuned.

Blu Dot Store (SoHo)
140 Wooster St.
New York, NY 10012

212-780-9058
www.bludot.com

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